Hi,

On 22.09.2012 17:10, John F. Eldredge wrote:
Interesting.  I traveled some in Europe as a teenager, in the 1970'#,
and I remember seeing a lot of roadside shrines in Austria and
Switzerland, but I don't remember of hearing of a general pattern of
having crosses to mark mountain peaks.  Is this custom of recent
origin?

The usual English translation is "summit cross", and Wikipedia has a nice explanation about the history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_cross

Bye
Frederik

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